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JimFox

JimFox

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Well, as sad as it was that your NAS crashed, this is a really nice treasure to have dug up.
 
Mike Lewis

Mike Lewis

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Great view with great light. Wanted to get there when visiting the park this year, but too many non-photographers on the trip to make it happen. Images like this keep it on my bucket list though :) Very nice catch. Hopefully you have been able to recover the data from your NAS? I had a mirrored 2 drive NAS that had the fan go out, and it failed. But I was able to extract the data (with a certain amount of effort.) Hoping you had the same result.

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ckcarr

ckcarr

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Mike Lewis said:
Hopefully you have been able to recover the data from your NAS? I had a mirrored 2 drive NAS that had the fan go out, and it failed. But I was able to extract the data (with a certain amount of effort.) Hoping you had the same result.
ML
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Wasn't that simple. It was raid 5, and I believe that the Western Digital NAS I owned was in the middle of doing a firmware update when something went wrong. I say that because they had just released an update in that same time period. After going round and round with their basic support staff, being passed from one to another who would keep saying "Is this satisfactory?" to which I would always say "No" I eventually was contacted by someone in a position of authority in their corporate office. That person agreed to have my drive and disks sent to a company called Drive Savers, who specialize in data recovery. Western Digital paid for all of it, which was a good thing because a copy of the invoice when I received it back was $7,400... All I had wanted was a new NAS box... But I now do have all my raw files back. It took almost three months though. Yes you should have a backup of the NAS also, but at the time that NAS had already cost me $1,280. Now, three years later, you can buy 10TB portable drives cheap, so that's a "for sure."
 
Mike Lewis

Mike Lewis

Staff Member
ckcarr said:
Wasn't that simple. It was raid 5, and I believe that the Western Digital NAS I owned was in the middle of doing a firmware update when something went wrong. I say that because they had just released an update in that same time period. After going round and round with their basic support staff, being passed from one to another who would keep saying "Is this satisfactory?" to which I would always say "No" I eventually was contacted by someone in a position of authority in their corporate office. That person agreed to have my drive and disks sent to a company called Drive Savers, who specialize in data recovery. Western Digital paid for all of it, which was a good thing because a copy of the invoice when I received it back was $7,400... All I had wanted was a new NAS box... But I now do have all my raw files back. It took almost three months though. Yes you should have a backup of the NAS also, but at the time that NAS had already cost me $1,280. Now, three years later, you can buy 10TB portable drives cheap, so that's a "for sure."
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Wow, that does sound pretty complicated and scary. You are giving me some good advice, as I am now running a RAID 5 setup myself that is about ~16TB worth of usable space, of which I probably am using almost 3TB at this point. Time to go find a large external drive! :) Thanks for posting the details of your ordeal.

ML
 
AlanLichty

AlanLichty

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Mike Lewis said:
Wow, that does sound pretty complicated and scary. You are giving me some good advice, as I am now running a RAID 5 setup myself that is about ~16TB worth of usable space, of which I probably am using almost 3TB at this point. Time to go find a large external drive! :) Thanks for posting the details of your ordeal.

ML
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I considered RAID drive options when I moved to my current external drive configuration (a 4 drive enclosure) but after spending my working life as a systems and network administrator I have seen far too many hardware failures that required a complete rebuild. Especially if you lose the drive controller since it has all of the RAID configuration mapping info in it. I opted to build my current drive enclosure to be JBOD (just a bunch of disks) running as two sets of mirrored disks so no single drive failure can destroy the data and there is no separate controller/software that can be a single point of failure. The drives are mirrored nightly by a standalone backup program rather than trying to constantly synchronize the data.
 
Alisa

Alisa

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This is beautiful! I’m discovering a whole new world in UT, AZ and really loving all the red rocks! Great shot!
 
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